How to Use contemporaneous in a Sentence

contemporaneous

adjective
  • He was questioned about it by the agents, who took contemporaneous notes.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Feb. 2020
  • A lot of footage that was shown looked contemporaneous and seemed to be coming from inside the cult.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
  • This is a contention that isn’t backed by a single contemporaneous quote or piece of hard evidence in the book.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2021
  • These films were contemporaneous with Nollywood movies, which also got a lot of play at the shop.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Review of Books, 21 June 2026
  • Most notably, the term obscures the sizable debt that these records owe to contemporaneous Black music.
    — Elias Leight, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no particular lesson to be drawn from these clusters of contemporaneous deaths, of course.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Even the picture’s frame, contemporaneous but not original, is of a deep black wood with gold embellishments.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • This is also why the contemporaneous criticisms of the picture as style over substance ring so hollow today.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
  • According to contemporaneous reports, Fenwick should have been sent off with a red.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 16 May 2018
  • Vasquez also asked Heard about the lack of contemporaneous medical records that would document the abuse.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • All the while, Koh threads contemporaneous and historic events in Korea into the background.
    — Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The absence of such a pattern and the lack of contemporaneous evidence is why the allegations against Kavanaugh did not sink him.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Some of that contemporaneous sensation had to go for this adaptation, most notably any direct reference to timely headlines of the day when the show was filmed.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Despite being set in 2036, the series story arc is contemporaneous in that it is set in a world in the aftermath of a deadly virus.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 July 2022
  • In that case, a contemporaneous forex capital gains election is better on the Section 988 trades.
    — Robert Green, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But for many British Jews, an altogether more contemporaneous subject is also likely to be on the agenda at the festive meal.
    — James Masters, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Adams has denied the allegations and members of his staff and contemporaneous records from the mayor’s office refuted some key elements of the staffer’s claims.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The two Spinosaurus species, which were contemporaneous, shared the same general body plan including long dorsal spines forming the sail-like structure and a skull adapted for hunting fish.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This means analysts will be trading without a relatively key piece of contemporaneous data that markets have been watching closely.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Think of them like a lite Campbell Conference version of the contemporaneous Flyers out East.
    — Colin Fleming, SI.com, 22 May 2017
  • While working on season one, Carrafa learned that most historical knowledge of the era’s dances comes from contemporaneous dancing manuals.
    — Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The wavy, sinuous forms that appear in O’Keeffe’s contemporaneous abstractions are confined only to the sky here, where rows of clouds threaten to cover the moon.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Further evidence comes from the fact that Conan Doyle killed off Holmes in the first place, and from the contemporaneous correspondence with his mother.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Fewer than forty contemporaneous documents referring to Vermeer have been discovered across various archives, which scholars have used to sketch out the thin shape of a life.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The power of his work, says Ms Kim, stems from his dual role as artist and witness—not just through the contemporaneous recording of violence, but in teasing out responses that stretch over decades.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • All of Amadeus’s contemporaneous stylistic and dialogue choices are a blast, but the series’ suggestion that this kind of guy is plaguing our present, too, feels the most timeless, and the most unsettling.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 May 2026
  • The show’s first five episodes (of its eight) are a powerful crescendo of agony, as depicted both in shots in which heat and stench seem to come through the television and in contemporaneous news footage, still jarring and heartbreaking years later.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Prosecutors drew both scenes—which until now have not been part of the public record—from contemporaneous notes that Pence provided to the Special Counsel.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The series didn’t push the controversy button as much as other contemporaneous sitcoms like All in the Family and Maude.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • The general counsel of the Sierra Club, contemporaneous to Paris being signed, said critical things of the agreement.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2017

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